AMYROSE FOLL on Free Food for Liberation /238

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This year approximately 42 million people will experience food insecurity in the United States, a perverse number when put in context to the surplus of food many of us have access to. In this week’s episode, we look at the work of Virginia Free Farm with guest Amyrose Foll. By providing free produce, plants, seeds, chicken, and ducks Virginia Free Farm is addressing the quality of food offered to their community, while also working to strengthen their local foodshed by getting more folks involved in gardening and small-scale farming. Amyrose continues to create a powerful example of how we can make meaningful interventions within the existing food system while also working on building an alternative model where everyone's health and wellbeing is prioritized. Amyrose is an enrolled tribal member of the Abenaki, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and alumni of both Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Science, and S.C. Johnson Graduate School Of Management. A passion for agriculture and deep concerns about community food security led her to become a stakeholder in the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture Equitable Food Oriented Distribution Taskforce and founder of Virginia Free Farms. Music by Ian George and Edie. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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1:18.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
1:22.8	Today I'm speaking with Amy Rose Foll.
1:26.6	Think that the medicine for tragedy is community. We have everything that we need.
1:32.8	Amy Rose is an enrolled tribal member of the Abanaki, a veteran of the U.S. Army,
1:38.4	and an alumni of Cornell University. She is cultivating the next generation of land and
1:43.8	water protectors through sharing knowledge in indigenous lifeways and ethnopotany,
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